readytorunbook Chapter 294 Imperfect Perfection...
Chapter 294 Imperfect Perfection...
Chapter 294 Imperfect Perfection...
"lucky..."
Facing the ecstatic Houston reporters after the game, Ron said with a simple smile.
luck…
Yes…
Maybe luck is part of the game too...
Houston has been lucky to get to where it is today?
In a sense yes.Except for Ron's almost robbery in the middle of the season to get Mayo and Dragic from Memphis and Phoenix, and Yao Ming's comeback at the end of the regular season, the luck of this year's playoffs has always been on Ron's side.
In the first round, they met the "first-round man" Anthony's pseudo-strong team to dig in. The Denver people who lost their head coach Karl are like lambs waiting to be slaughtered...
Against the Spurs, he jumped out of Superman in time for every game (Yao Ming in the first game, Dragic in the fourth game, Mayo and Ariza in the fifth game, and Iverson in the seventh game), otherwise there might not be even a 7th game.
But from another point of view, luck is conserved. This is just God’s repayment for what he owed. In those years, luck has never been on the rocket’s side...
Whistle on the ghost of the Mavericks in 05...
In 07 and 08, I met the nemesis perfect Jazz, one of which was without Yao Ming...
McGrady stopped playing early in 09, and Yao Ming also fell on the way to the semifinals...
Between the Rockets and the Spurs, and most Texas and even Western Conference teams, there is a lack of feud traditions similar to the eastern giants' hand-to-hand strangulation and mutual questioning.
When Yao Ming raised his swollen right leg and stepped into the Western Conference Finals for the first time in 8 years, GDP immediately stepped forward to hug him and congratulate him with a smile. Those smiles were obviously sincere, just like every time someone "I-Will-be-back" congratulated each other after the game.
"Of course I'm sad for the loss, but I'm also happy for Iverson and Yao Ming," Tony Parker said, "because they struggled every year with their injuries and never got around to it, and now they finally succeeded. Successfully defeated themselves..."
Houston should be thankful that they have such a character opponent. The Spurs never look at victory as proudly as the emperor and nobles, let alone treat defeat as stingily as LeBron James.
Although "the better team wins" is far from the truth, and "the team Stern loves more" often constitutes a counterexample, but between the Rockets and the Spurs, in the more than 20 regular-season contests in the Yao-Mc era, except for 04 seconds and 35 minutes in 13, every victory of the Spurs or the Rockets was convincing, reflecting their respective problems. They are not only a better team, a great opponent, but also a bright mirror.
So when the fate was reversed, the public opinion began to praise the Rockets' advancement one-sidedly, and finally found a way to play in the playoffs, praised the defensive changes of Adelman and Jerry Sloan, praised the tough temperament of the new Rockets, and at the same time lashed out at the paranoia and weakness of the Yao Mai era...
The pair of Yao and Mai who created the Rockets' first summer light year were unfair to each other. The fact is that it is impossible for a person to step into the same river twice. What the Rockets defeated in 2010 was by no means the Spurs in 05 or 07.
And there has never been a year when Houston has such a strong front office, coaching staff, and a roster with no one absent. …
It is enough to know that Ron is a good manager, Yao Ming is still fearless, Iverson is still gorgeous, and the players are still eager to win, and all the good luck of this ordinary team in the past year will come to an end.
The Western Conference Finals is not a rivalry between Ron and Jenny Buss, Awen and Zen Master's impromptu tricks, Cyclops Iverson and Kobe Bryant's leader's heart PK, but a competition between Alexander and the old Buss checkbook.
The total annual salary of the eight-man rotation of the Rockets and the Lakers is 3216 million to 8721 million US dollars. What does the 5500 million annual salary gap mean?Should Mayo be replaced by Dwight Howard + Haywood + Gortat, or should Ariza be replaced by Anthony + Durant?
Therefore, the Rockets have no chance. After all, professional sports is a game of calculating money and cost, investment and return, and the Lakers are not New York or Shanxi. They are a model of high investment and high return. They are the most successful team in the NBA in 60 years.As for Ron, a rookie, his NBA manager game has just started.
Under the premise that the total salary difference is nearly 5000 million? BEAT-LA?Then you are not insulting the Lakers but insulting money.
Therefore, those who wear yellow jackets are destined to kill those who run naked, and this magical season of the Rockets is about to come to an end.
Therefore, everyone who loves this team as deeply as I do not need to worry about gains and losses. This season is perfect enough. We went from tremblingly looking forward to the playoffs, to Ron taking office, discovering Kyle Lowry, discovering Mayo, discovering Dragic, discovering Chandler, discovering Nick Young, discovering Yao Ming and Iverson who are different from the past...
The most important thing is that Yao Ming is still running, and with his own way and determination, he has defeated the most important opponent in his life besides the old Shark.
When his vision blurred and he took a final sweep of the Nets at the Toyota Center, he knew the basket was there -- not by instinct or inspiration, but by eight years of uninterrupted shooting practice.
"When my body is getting old, I know that my body can no longer recover as fast as when I was young, but I hate decline," said Yao Ming, the man with the most accurate shooting and free throw percentage among big men in NBA history. "So I can only keep reducing my personal time and come back to training. At first, it was four hours in advance, then six hours, and now it takes almost eight hours to find the feeling that satisfies me."
This is the whole secret of why Yao Ming became the number one center in the league, or it is not a secret at all.
Teacher Popovich predicted before leaving: "If Ron is willing to help, I think Yao Ming can play for another five or six years."
I also wish No. 21 the legend of their generation to last longer!
...
"How about it?"
"The players are all in good spirits...just..." Qing Itachi looked a little sullen holding a thick stack of physical examination reports...
"Well... I see..." Ron nodded...
Compared with the finals that are out of reach, in fact, in Ron's heart now, from the day he stepped into the Western Conference finals, there has been an inevitable big trouble that will make him never have peace in the following time...
What he will face next season is the embarrassing situation where a group of players who are good enough to enter the finals are looted by all the teams in the league...
Maybe the team just entered the first round, only entered the semifinals, he may still have the confidence to retain a few key players, but entered the Western Conference Finals...
Everyone's worth more than doubled?
Mayo's sky-high contract alone has made him restless...
Of course, his disciples have become the winners in life, he is gratifying, but who will he himself sympathize with the team manager of a stingy boss in a small ball market?
The Rockets certainly didn't lose the season, but the Houston earthquake wasn't over.
When Dragic said the phrase "Being a substitute is not my ultimate dream", the earthquake continued; when Scola shook his head and said "I'm not sure where I am next season", the earthquake continued.
After a turbulent season, Ron wanted to be quiet for a while. When he told the media that he would definitely keep some of Mayo, Dragic, Scola and Lowry, but anyone with a discerning eye knows that only one person can barely stay in a salary match...
There are almost no non-sale items in the Rockets. After all, Alexander also said, "Now the finances are tight...We are a small ball market team..."
What's more, when Yao Ming is uncertain about his injury's future on the basketball court, and when Houston has four defending champions' revenge, Houston's season ended in the slightest.
Aftershocks continue...
This is just in line with that sentence - "Come out to mess around, you will have to pay it back sooner or later..."
All this is like a butterfly effect, one hair will affect the whole body...
Maybe Ron is facing more than just these things in the basketball circle...
When Dragic said the phrase "Being a substitute is not my ultimate dream", the earthquake continued; when Scola shook his head and said "I'm not sure where I am next season", the earthquake continued.
(End of this chapter)